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The doctors’ enslavement bill: Matters arising

By Talemoh Wycliffe Dah MD The bill by the Honorable member of the House of Representatives from Isolo, Abiodun Jonathan, seeking to compel fresh medical...

Doctors protest 5-year service as UK ends ‘active recruitment’ of health workers from Nigeria, others 

Protests over a plan by the National Assembly to introduce a compulsory five-year service licensing for Nigerian trained doctors has continued with the National...

Sad and Pathetic: 82,000 women die yearly from pregnancy in Nigeria.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that about 82,000 Nigerian women die yearly from complications from pregnancy or childbirth in the country. It...

Nigeria, others face health workers shortage amid foreign recruitment, says WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Nigeria and 54 other countries are struggling with serious health worker shortages as they continue seeking better-paid opportunities...

Cancer and Nigeria, few facts and odds

2023 theme: Close the care Gap: Uniting our voices and taking action. By Agbor N. Ebuta MD Cancer is a major health condition which burdens the...

Not Again! Fatal flu claims 3 Nigerian lives in China, 7 hospitalised

Confirmed not to be COVID-19, nor any of its variants, but all the same deadly and presenting some symptoms like the pandemic that ravaged...

As Atiku, Tinubu bicker over health, Obi says the ‘sick’ should not preside over ‘sick’ nation

With the camps of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at each other's throats...

Resident doctors plan strike, write minister

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has informed the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, that it plans to call its members out...

Muhammadu Buhari, NHIS, NHIA, a new beginning, an untapped potential

By Agbor N. Ebuta MD Almost seven months ago, Mr. President signed the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) bill into law, and this was a...

Sad: Mother of strikes begins Friday in Abia as doctors down tools over two years salary arrears

If the threat of strike beginning Friday in Abia State public hospitals goes through, then the promised "mother of strikes" by the Nigeria Medical...

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